Rahul Sundaram wrote:
There is no need to assume that clarifying something requires
changing
existing code and changing existing code doesn't necessarily require
breaking compatibility
Have you seen the changes they requested?
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-January/011228.html
Dan Winship requested more than one name change:
| "Movie" is not standard terminology. Why not
"AttentionAnimationName"?
| The naming inconsistency is weird. "ServiceRegistered" should be
| "StatusNotifierIconRegistered", shouldn't it? Also, don't we need
| "StatusNotifierHostUnregistered"?
(and several other places where he doesn't explicitly request a name change,
but complains the name is not good) that would have very clearly broken all
existing implementations (while bringing no benefit whatsoever to the end
user, nor even to application developers, only to the handful toolkit
developers out there that can surely cope with a few poorly-named D-Bus
methods and signals).
Kevin Kofler